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SUMMARY:Aram Kavoossi and Luca Lum | stand and watch in the dark 
DESCRIPTION:stand and watch in the dark \nAram Kavoossi and Luca Lum\nApril 18 – 25\, 2025\nOpen 12-6pm on Fridays\, Saturdays\, Sundays\, and Tuesdays. Open 12-7pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Closed on Mondays.\nOpening reception on Friday\, April 18 from 6:30-9pm. \nOpening Night Artist Talk: 7:15–8PM | Elegies in Real Time moderated by Harris Chowdhary \nShadows cut\, processes drone\, effigies sit in and watch the dark. Through moving image\, sound\, installation\, and scenography\, Luca Lum (SMACT ’25) and Aram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26) explore what it means to live in a depleted present\, a present whose material qualities and resources feel pre-determinedly arranged by future projections and the curation of the past\, by tracing what Renée Green describes as the “emotional fullness in locations of perceived absence … shifting remains.” Both artists plumb the respective shadows of their respective sites to harness their elegiac tonalities. For Kavoossi\, this refers to an intimate\, alienated choreography of the Western landscape; for Lum\, this resonates with animacies\, grief\, and loss in anticipatory structures in Singapore and America that arrange how time is felt or relocated. \nIt is within the supposedly impossible and impassable where new contours of life may be found\, albeit in ruinous forms\, seeking address. In this respect\, the artists echo Edouard Glissant’s proposal that “We are told\, and it is true\, that everything is disorganized\, confused\, decrepit\, madness is everywhere\, the blood and the wind. We see it and we live it. But it is the whole world that is speaking to you\, through so many gagged voices.” \nLum and Kavoossi’s moving image pieces will each run after the other. \nLuca Lum (SMACT ’25) is an artist and writer attuned to arrhythmias of time\, memory\, and affect. She considers the technological\, semiotic and informational as material\, relation\, and predicament. \nAram Kavoossi (SMACT ’26) is an artist\, writer\, and editor currently based in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.
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